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    s390/os_info: Introduce value entries · 88702793
    Alexander Gordeev authored
    Introduce entries that do not reference any data in memory,
    but rather provide values. Set the size of such entries to
    zero and do not compute checksum for them, since there is no
    data which integrity needs to be checked. The integrity of
    the value entries itself is still covered by the os_info
    checksum.
    
    Reserve the lowest unused entry index OS_INFO_RESERVED for
    future use - presumably for the number of entries present.
    That could later be used by user level tools. The existing
    tools would not notice any difference.
    Acked-by: default avatarHeiko Carstens <hca@linux.ibm.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarAlexander Gordeev <agordeev@linux.ibm.com>
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